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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31
Economic Way of Raising Potatoes.

"A most successful way of raising Pota-
toes in the South is by planting them in
what is called lazy bed, which is done
by applying manure very heavily in the
rows and then covering the whole bed
with straw, leaves, corn-stalks or any
coarse litter. By this plan, no working
or wedding is required and the growth is
notstoppeG by the first hot, dry weather,
as the ground is kept cool and moist,
which greatly increases the yield of the
potatoes amt makes them of much better
quality.
"A good plan, by which several objects
are combined, is to select field which is
to be sOwn TO wheat next fall, and fence
in as much as will make g good sized
feeding lot for COWS and sheep. On this
enclosure iced all of the corn stalks. The
following spring take the adjoining land
for potatoes; pillow well; then lay off
three Or four rows at time ON side
furthest from the cow-pen. Make the
ferrews deep; drop the potatoes at good
distance apart and fill the furrows up with
coarse manure, keeping on this way until
all are planted. The object ia planting
only q few rows at time is, TO avoid
running the manure wagon over the fur
rows, of this would destroy them After
the fieldsds all planted, rake with hay
or stalk rake the stalks from the cow
pen on the potatoe plot, SO that the COW
ering WILDE a foot thick after settling.
This is all that is needed until harvest,
when the stalks are raked FROM the po-
tatoes ana thinly spread over the wheat
field, to DE plowed under. The pota-
toes can be gathered without digging, as
they will either be on the top OF the
ground or in the loose manure. In the
South, potatoes raised in this way may
be left in the ground all winter and gath
cred in perfect condition in the spring.
The conditions of success with this
method are TO use plenty of manure and
to have the naulch at least foot thick
Nothing is sogood for a mulch as corn
stalks, and iu raising potatoes in gar
den, the stalks may be piled on the edge
of the patch in gathering and may be
used for several years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore d Western
Railway has been well named the Fishing
and Hunting Line of Wisconsin, passing,
as it does, through thousands of acres of
but partially explored woods and within
easy reaching distance of lakes and
streams that have never keen fshed by
white men. all well stocked with the game
fish for which Northern Wisconsin waters
are noted. The woods abound with game:
deer, bear, wolf, mink. beaver, pheasant,
and other game are quite plentiful.
THE ONLY LINE
From Milwaukee to the new Iron Mining
District in Wisconsin and Michigan-Go-
gebic, Wakefield, Bcssemer, Ironwood and
Hurley.
Direct line to ASHLAND and beyond
Sleeping cars between ASHLAND, MIL
WAUKEE and CHICAGO.
The GUIDE Book, and other descriptive
matter, containing full information, maps
and engravings of the country traversed
by the line, will be sent on application to
the General Passenger Agent.
CHAs. A. COLE, Gen. Agent, los Wash
ington St., Chicago.
Chicago Depot, Cor. Wells and Kinzie
Sts., &C. d N. w. R'y)
III. f. WHITCOMB, CHAS. v. McKINLAY
Gen1 Manager. Gen'l Pass Agent,
MILWAUKEE,, WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31

To kill out the cat-worms pillow the
ground soon enough to allow the frost to
penetrate.
Sow some radish and kale for your
poultry as soon as possible, and give them
free range upon it.
A gill Of linseed meal fed daily to each
COW or horse will keep the bowels in good
condition and greatly promotes the
health.
There is nothing to prevent the farmer
from experimenting. In that way he
will learn more about his own farm than
can be taught him by others.
If your land is we'll underdrained you
will often be able to pillow while your
neighbor who may not have underdrained
is waiting for his ground to dry off before
he can begin.
If old hay be cut and moistened before
being fed to horses there will be fewer
animals suffering from heaves- Feeding
materials is usually the cause of the diff
Guilty.
A mixture of equal parts of red pepper
and Scotch snuff thrown into rat holes
will cause the vermin to leave. Rats soon
become suspicious of poison, and the
| mixture easily frightens them.
Manuring land by blowing under some
kind of green crop. such as millet, buck
| wheat, oats, or peas, should be the object
of every farmer. Glover is also excellent
and Hume should be freely used at the
same time.
If the seed is good the cutting of po-
tatoss to pieces with two eyes should give
good results. In cutting always endeavor
| to leave as much of the tuber to the eyes
as possible, as it serves as plant food in
the early stages of growth.
Do not try to keep geese unless ali the
conditions are favorable. Geese may be
| kept at very small cost or they may en-
tail loss, according to circumstances A
pond and pasture will enable them to Sc
cure their food with but little aid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31

the better. The first four named rarely
vegetate well unless planted very early.
The others need not be hurried SO much
except that we want them early for the
table.
An excellent way to plant the seeds of
carrots and Larsnips, which are especially
liable to fail, is to use twelve-lnch board
having strip of lath nailed along one
edge, as .hand-moulding is nailed on a
door casing. Rake the bed level, and
make the surface fine. Lay the board
across it, SO that the lath comes downward,
and just where you want the first row.
Walk across on the board once or twice
and the lath is pressed into the soil, max
ing a plain mark Turn the board over,
and plant the seeds in this mark, aud in
stead of covering them with soil, use fine
sand, filling the mark just level full. The
sand acts as mulch, keeping the seeds
moist. In it there are no Jumps to hold
plantlets down, and it plainly marks the
rows SO that the bed may be hoed over
before the plants are up. The earliest
carrot is the French Forcing, called also
Early Forcing. Extra Early Forcing, etc.
For the main crop the half-long sorts are
more productive. In parsnips nothing is
better than the old Hollow Grown. For
lettuce, Prize Head, Black-seeded Simpson.
All the Year around, White Chavigne and
Deacon are alls,excellent. For early onions
it is best to plant "sets." For the main
crop nothing is better than Yellow Dan
vers.
Egyptian is the earliest beet. It is well
to make a planting of Half-Long Blood
in May for winter use, The Virofay is
the most rapidly growing spinach. Of
radishes, early Long Scarlet and Woods
Early Frame are perhaps as good as any.
The pea sold as CIeveland's Rural New
Yorker (thjs is not its only name) is per-
haps as early as any. The Alaska mod
ern Kentish Invicta, is quite as early. A
planting of either of these with one of
American Wonder, the earliest wrinkled
pea is sufficient for start.
1t is best to plant radishes in bed OF
sand, otherwise the roots are very liable
to be ruined by the Larvae of the redish fly.
Procure from some market gardener a
few plants of early Wakefield or Etampse
cabbage and of Henderson's SNOWFALL
caulihower. Prepare in sope sheltered
spot bed for celery plots, sowing the
seed IN the manner described for carrots
and parsnips; Crawford's Half-dwarf and
Coles Solid Red are good.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31
JAY GOULD MORALlZES.

He Remembers the Days of His Boyhood and is
Gleeful. Then He Recalls His Riches and
Finds That Money Does Not Bring Happiness.
New York Times.
Yesterday Mr.. Gould sat on sofa in
Windsor Hotel and tried to make news
paper reporter contented. If Mr.. Gould
reporter happened to be narrow minded.
not that Mr.. Gould's philosophy was weak
kneed.
"After ALL" quoth Mr.. Gould, "after
all, what does man get in this world ex-
cept something to eat something to wear
and somewhere to liver"
His conumdrum unanswered by his list
ner Mr.. Gould answered it himself.
''The poor man ought to be the happi-
est man, "went Oh the millionaire. "Wealth
brings cares without compensation. A
man gets rich and then he's slave.
Very mistaken ideas exist on this subject.
With SO much promised, Mr.. Gould pro-
ceeded to tell in a general way of the joys
that once he himself knew and now was
too rich to know any more.
"Ah," he said, 81 often recur to the days
when 1 was a boy up in Delaware county.
I was pretty lad. There wasen't much
wear and tear in life then. How good
would feel just to go out and drive the
cattle home from the pasture once more!
And how delicious it would be to stoop
down by the old COW again to do the morn
ing's milking and just squirt stream OF
her fresh, hot milk in between my lips as
I used to do! That was nectar. That's
what gave an appetite for breakfast"
Mr.. Gould's eyes glistened. Boyhood
memories were evidently much to his
taste. "a boy on farm ought to be one
of the happiest beings alive" he added
He may leave to go out into the buster
world, and he may make more money
elsewhere and In other ways, but he will
never be jot happier anywhere or any
how-not jot; it isn't in human posi-
bility TO be happier. Of course, though
nobody is ever contented. 1 remember
how it was with myself. One of my boy
friends was Sam Dimmick, who lives up a,
Kingston on he-Hudson. His farther
Col. Dimmick, was one of the we'll to- dc
men up in Delaware county in those times
and remember I used to wish and wish
that something would happen to enable
me to get as rich as he was. He seemed
like Cresus to me. And 1 left the
farmt"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31
EARLY GARDENING.
he First Paintings and the Best Varieties
How TO Secure Early Vegetables.


There is peculiar satisfaction in an
early garden. The first dish of vege-
tables always tastes the best, and the
flavor is perceptibiy heightened if the
vegetable is fit to gather in our own gar
den little earlier than in our neighbours
not that we would have our neighbor
succeed less than ourselves, but there is
luxury in being able to present ones
neighbor with the first mess of spinach,
lettuce or green peas, before his own are
fit to use. 1T is NOSE blessed to give
than to receive"
The sooner our early paintings are
made the better provided the soil is not
worked before it is sufficiently dry. The
garden should not be stepped upon as
long as the earth packs into clods be-
meath the feet. But when the surface
soil has become SO dry that it no longer
sticks to the shoes, and shovelful thrown
upon the ground breaks up int many
fragments, the sooner the seeds of car
rots, parsnips, lettuce, onions, beets,
spinach, radishes and peas are planted
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN
SOLITAIRE.
,sE TERRY COOKE, IN HARPER's Bazaar

ROSE TERRY COOKE, IN HARPER'S BAZAAR.
Patience. Yes; that's the Woman's game;
The dull delight Of solitude.
Where rank on rank she strives to frame,
And speech or laughter ne'er intrude.
Night after night, beside the fire,
When evenings lonely lamp is lit,
Oppressed with thoughts that vex and tire
Among the cards her fingers fit.
The woman's camel On some poor king
The sequence of her play is built;
The queen comes after. hapeless thing.
And next theiknave with grinning guilt.
Then all her treasures, one by one,
Are thrown away to swell the pile.
The last and least; when that is done,
Begin again; the night beguile.
A woman's game: to sit and wait;
Build and iebuild, though fate destroy.
Shuttle the cards; for soon or late
There comes an end to grief and Joy.
man may fight or SOW, or reap,
Divide the seas, or traverse earth;
She can but drudge, or pray, or weep.
What are her life and loving worth.
She sits there when the day is dead,
Lonely and listless. Do you dare
Deny, when all is done and said,
That woman's game is solitaire?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31

Owns and operates nearly $500 miles of thor.
oughly equipped road in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Missouri, Minnesota and Dakota
It is the Best Direct Route be-
tween all principal points In the
Northwest, Southwest and Far
West
For maps, time tables, rates Of passage and
TT lght ETC. apply to the nearest station agent of
me CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY
Or TO any Railroad Agent anywhere in the
World.
MILLER, A. V. RI. CARPENTER,
General manager. Gen. Pass and Tkt AIT
F. TUCKER, GEO. Fl. HEAFFORD
ASS II Gen. Man. Asst Gen Pass and Tkt Agt.
MILWAUKEE,, WISCONSIN,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31
Paying Business.
Wall Street News.

He had been saying he would like to
get into some paying business which re-
CURED only small capital, when the
squInt-eyed man beckoned him aside and
said:
"You seem to be purity good sort of
man, and I'll put you on to a good
thing. Move out to Dakota and sell your
wife,"
do what?''
"Fact. I've sold three and am East af-
ter fourth, and not one of them fetched
ess than $500. Go off like hot cakes
ut there, and the climate agrees with
en-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31
PERSONALS.

Ex-senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania
had made 81, SOC, 600 since he left the SEN
ate.
General Phil Sheridan gallantly carries
his wife's handbag when he goes shopping
with her.
Ex-senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania
will resume his law practice at Well
shore.
The greater portion of ex-Secretary
Manning's vacation will be passed in
sunny France.
The son of Governor Ames, of Massa-
chusetts, is hard at work in a shovelshop
learning his trade.
Mark Twain has an article entitled
English as She Is Taught" in the April
Century. 1t gives numerous examples of
the remarkable English sometimes found
in school exercises, with running aom-
ment by the numerous.
Charles Lux, tie California cattle mil
lionaire, died at San francisco Tuesday.
He owned 10000 acres of land worth SO,
900 900 and had $4,000 mead of cattle
Over 700 miles of priva to telegraph lines
connecting his ranches.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York legislature requiring lawyers to pay
a license fee of $500 to 81 900. If such
law goes into effect it is safe to say that
good many lawyers will go ont of prac
tice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31

e-For notices in reference 10 Speeial Exeur.
Sc,aa. changes Of time. End other items of inter-
ess la connection with the CHICAGO NuvIUxpx
81. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer TO the local
columns Of this paper
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31

LEGAL BLANKS
F0RSALE
AT THE
WOOD co. REPORTER OFFICE.
FOR JuSWCE OF THE PEACE.
Appeal-Notice, Affidavit and Undertaking.
Observation-Disclosures and Afndavit.
Bill of costs.
Garinshee Aihaavits.
Summons.
R.plevin-Warsan and Affidavit.
Subpenas.
Summons-with filing and Return.
Venire.
And full line of blanks used by any Justice
Of the Peace.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Land Contracts, (Bond for deed,)
Lcase-No. 2 for Farm land.
" term of years for city
property.
Mechanics Lein-petition for material and
labor.
Mortgages-For real estate-Prepared spoci-
ally for Wood County Records.
Warranty Deeds-Prepared for Wood County
Records.
Chattel Morti age-No1 l.
=" 5. Several Notes.
Satisfaction of Mortgage.
Assignment
Notice to Tenant to quit Premises.
Generalfiadave for Pnsion,
Physicians afiGavits for Pension.
Saloon License bonds.
General Power of Attorney.
Quit Claim Deed-No. l. form 1856.
Search Warrant, and Affidavit.
STATIONERY
No. l. Legal oap-Linen.
Abstract or Department LegaI-Numbered
lines.
Letter Heads printed to order.
Bill 4"
Business Cards
Tags-all sizes
Circulars "
Show Bills, oil kinds" - 4"
Tablets of white paper for pencils.
% pen, all sizes kept
in stock.
We propose to keep all blanks used in Circuit
Court, Justices Court and those of miscelia-
peous character as noted above.
JOB DEPARTMENT.
We have in this department q scmplete line
of job Material and Type for doing frstclass
Job work short notice and as the lowest
living prices. We do all kinds Of Pamphlet
and Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31
FARM NOTES.

To kill out the cat-worms pillow the
ground soon enough to allow the frost to
penetrate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31

Tablets Of white paper for pencils.
- pen, all sizes kept
in stock.
We propose to keep all blanks used in Circuit
Court, Justices Court and those of mscella-
pcous character as noted above.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-31

JOB DEPARTMENT.
We have in this dspar tmsnt complete line
of job Material and Type for doing frstclass
Job work on short notice and At the lowest
living prices. We do all kinds Of Pamphlet
and Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices
The Labor enquirer., 1887-10-01
s.a epsssase 3 a. psepla ses ~ pso

s.s spssssse n - pseals sor " 20:
The vlasss q - s>a>s shoald b 20 adr
ministesed b. ~ ststs at cost that ~
toilsrs of ~ l1ns md ~ moilsrs n ~
shops oan heSo Vo1rg, one of Gods ffoe
gifls 70 man, q w. ooot price Of con-
fstructine and main1aining tie proper vat
q works and iRrigntion system.
The mines of }Ais stais must be 20 3D.
ministsfed sas 70 bsos1t the working
minsrs more and ths foreign stock-holdsr1
lees. "
The inAnity of wrongs under vhioh The
workers and produeefs suffer, preclude I
further speciAeation. But the United La
Dor Party stands pledged to remedy them,
one and III By constitutional methods q
far q human wisdom, honest deeds and 4
deep and abiding love Of humanity and
our American institutions can serve 90 TO
do.
We believe the dicts Of science that nov
erty can and must be abolished, that crime
and misery can and shah be destroyed and
that he who viii not work, alone oughtnot
TO eat.
Inc time has come for party Of hon.
cot men, true to their convictions and
fearing nothing but to do dishonest act.
This the United Labor Party shall be, or
It shall not live.
To our aid and support We call the Of
forts Of al who love their country and viii
recognise the supremacy Of moral instead
Of selfish obligations.
We ahirm that We alone are the party Of
true Americanism, combining honest
democracy and progressive republicanism
In fact. intsad Of in name alone.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-10-01
THE STATE PLATFORM.

We, the LABOR PARTY. Of Colo
RADIO, do declare our adherence to
the National Platform of the Un-
ion Labor Party as adopted at
Cincinnati. Ohio, and our approx
al as we'll of the Clarendon Hall
United Labor Party Declaration
We hope for unity between the
two upon broad platform includ-
ing all the Rights of Man.
We further declare that all men and
women are born free and with equal rights
that they are endowed with certain ina.
lienablc rights among which are the right
of all to life and the means of living
liberty and the conditions assen-
tial to liberty, the right Of all TO equal and
exact Justice and to the free use Of the
legitimate means necessary TO enforce It,
and he right to the pursuit Of happiness
We declare these to be the basic principles
OF the Labor Movement, whether domes-
tic or foreig., and we invite to their sup
port and adherance, all honest men ire
spcctive of nationality or creed.
we denOunce the secret conspifacy lno"
being made manifest, among the monopo-
listic and aristocratic classes) to steal
from us, the people, by bribed legislatures,
corrupted courts and servile executives,
our dearest constitutional rights, as TREAS
ON pure and unalloyed. We declare that
we will resist to the uttermost the attem pts
now being made in dozen states OF this
land to suppress the right Of free speech,
TO kill the labor press, to deprive us Of
jury trials and Pfesentments, to disarm
the people, to enforce unlawful seizures
and searches OF persons, papers, houses
and effects, to destroy therights of public
assemblage, protest and petition, and to
teprive US Of the ballot.
We insist that the robbery of the public
treasury shall cease; that bribery and
Doodle must go; that election frauds must
stop; that taxes be laid justly upon the
rich and poor alike; that justice be free;
that the rich criminal shall not escape the
lail' and that the poor man shall not be
founded to deatb. desperation or despair.
We declare that franchises for public
works shall no longer becorruptly granted
to private corporations but shall be owned
The Labor enquirer., 1887-10-01
srArr orNrsAL ooxxIrrsE.
DENVER CENTRAL cLUB
Of Colorado.

DENVER CENTRAL CLUB.
President-J. D. Macdonald.
secretary-J. d. Keifer.
Treasurer-Louis Culmsee.
Executive Committee-H. Cohen, A. g.
Matter, s. W. Isenburg, DR.. O. P. Perry
]. II. Croxton, Chas. Cheesewright, ]. j
Smith, Arthur Chsesewright and W. A.
Wilson.
Official organ: The LABoR ESouIHxR.
Denver Central Club meets al
the "Hall of Science" corner oi
Arapahoe and Eighteenth streets,
every Wednesday at 7:3o p. m.
Cards OF Membership, Platforms and In
formation furnished on application to the
Corresponding Secretary.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-10-01
Henry Georges Parry, United Labor
Syracuse. Aug. 10, 1887.

We. the delegates Of the United Labor Parry
OF New York in state convention assembled
hereby reassert - the fundamental platform
Of the party and the basis on which we ask
the cooperation Of citisens Of other states,
the following declaration Of principles
adopted on September q 1888. by the conven-
ion OF the Trade and Labor Associations OF
the city Of New York, that resulted in the
formation Of the United Labor Party:
Holding that the coruptions of govern
ment and the impoverishmento labor result
from the neglect " selfsvident truths, pro-
claimed BY the founder Of this republic, that
all men are created free and equal and are
endowed by their Creator with certain In